Word: mosaics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quadrennial celebration of the near future is upon the U.S. From hamlet and city will come the bits and pieces of the American mosaic, and as they move down Pennsylvania Avenue this Thursday, they will reflect for one afternoon the diversity and genius of the nation, its joy and its confusion. There will be floats, mummers, horse platoons -and hope...
...fascinated by his complexities: "My own view is that he will either be one of the greatest Presidents of the modern era, or that he will be a complete failure. I see no middle ground for him, no mediocrity. He often described his vision of America as a 'beautiful mosaic' of almost infinite colors and facets. Presidents don't normally talk that way. They don't normally cry in front of reporters. They don't normally blast some political opponent one day and apologize publicly the next. Presidents don't normally do a lot of things Jimmy Carter does. Therein...
...Amazing Grace-America in Song, a 90-minute special that many PBS stations will telecast on Wednesday night, Oct. 27. Mixing sea chanteys, Victorian parlor songs and cowboy laments, swinging from gospel to Cole Porter to Charles Ives to Billie Holiday, Producer-Director Allan Miller has created a musical mosaic that reflects the variety and vitality of American song...
...ugly little freak blacklist, and it is hard to imagine anybody attempting to match the ambitious perspective of Hollywood on Trial. It pulls in Herbert Hoover and Zero Mostel. Joseph McCarthy and Walt Disney, and although it doesn't have the footwork some documentaries do, it is an impressive mosaic...
...wells gushing instant wealth, horizon-to-horizon cattle roaming the King Ranch, self-made millionaires stomping about in stetsons, ready to take a shot at anything that promises a profit. The surprising fact is that so much of this view is essentially true-although the real business mosaic of Texas is of course vastly more complicated. The Texas economy is a thing unto itself, almost self-sustaining, ever on the move. Today, for example, Texas is expanding production of drilling equipment faster than output of oil itself. Besides its oil tycoons and cattle barons, the overnight millionaires now include such...